Many dozens of perl5.10.0 variants of perlmodule packages don't build on 10.6/i386 (i.e., the 32-bit side of the "universal" system-perl) because they all clone the same CompileScript for Build.PL that does not pass the single-arch tricks. I'm fixing them because they're broken. I have contacted many of theirs' maintainers several times over the past few weeks, but it's all still broken. I'm sick of not being able to use half of the perl world on the one platform that we tend to say is best supported.
We really need an intrinsic support for this...a huge swath of CPAN uses Module::Build, so fink should support it cleanly just like we do with MakeMaker (Makefile.PL). The goal is an explicit trigger for alternate default CompileScript and InstallScript for Type:perl. Which of these new .info fields do y'all like? 1. PerlType: that takes values of "makemaker" or "module::build", that defaults to "Makefile.PL". 2. DefaultScript: that takes values of "autotools" "makemaker" "module::build"? Bonus: extensible to any other new build systems we feel like supporting, and lets packages get the type:perl magic even if they use autotools (or vice versa). 3. Automatically detect presence of Build.PL and switch to that mode insead of MakeMaker.PL. Bad: some distros include both, so wouldn't allow maintainer to choose which one works best without going back to hardcoding everything. This was proposed years ago on tracker. 4. [insert your idea here] dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
